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Julia Stoneham - The Cinderella Service

Julia Stoneham - The Cinderella Service: Episode 1

Drama: War & Disaster

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Julia Stoneham - The Cinderella Service, Episode 1

With her marriage in tatters, Alice becomes warden to ten lively Land Army girls in Devon.

4 Extra Debut. 1943: With her marriage in tatters, Alice becomes warden to ten lively Land Army girls billeted in Devon. Stars Samantha Bond.

Devon, England, 1943: Alice Todd has separated from her husband but, with a 10 year old son to care for, she needs to find a job. But is the position of Warden at a hostel for Land Army girls the right one?

Julia Stoneham's three-part series set during the Second World War stars Samantha Bond as Alice, Annabel Mullion as Georgina, Jilly Bond as Mrs Bowden, June Barrie as Rose, Tilly Vosburgh as Annie, Cathy Murphy as Mabel, Becky Hindley as Marian and Deborah McAndrew as Winnie.

Directed by Tracy Neale.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.

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Samantha Bond stars as Alice in a series set around a Devon hostel for land-army girls

Samantha Bond stars as Alice in a series set around a Devon hostel for land-army girls during the Second World War

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